http://blog.emusician.com/the_bus Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:10:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are looking to upgrade your sound library for Propellerhead Reason, Sonic Reality (http://sonicreality.com/) has a good deal for you. The company is offering a download comprising no less than 38 ReFills for a total of $399.99. According to Sonic Reality, purchasing these ReFills individually would run up a ... http://blog.emusician.com/the_bus/2009/11/18/sonic-refills-ultra-loaded/ We've moved! Go to blog.emusician.com/robairreport to keep up with Gino's twice-monthly columns. http://blog.emusician.com/the_bus/2009/11/12/check-out-the-robair-report-in-its-new-home/ The following is the third installment of a brand-new blog in which former EM editor Gino Robair speaks out on issues relating to music technology. Read the first installment and the second installment. My job keeps me traveling, but I like to get a bit of work done while I’m sitting ... http://blog.emusician.com/the_bus/2009/10/30/the-robair-report-today%e2%80%99s-studio-it%e2%80%99s-in-the-bag/ It's a perfect autumn gloom today. It has that moodiness and color that makes autumn so cinematic. I'm driving to meet some friends and for the first time in a long time I hear myself on the radio. Just that quick, the first track from Dear Lover, “City Life,” is ... http://blog.emusician.com/the_bus/2009/10/29/the-dear-future/ With my commitment to EM nearly over, I wonder if I offered anything useful to you readers out there. I hope that I have. Next week's blog will be my last. My assumption going in was that many of you probably understand the technical aspects of recording, sequencing and mixing ... http://blog.emusician.com/the_bus/2009/10/22/building-boats/ The following is the second installment of a brand-new blog in which former EM editor Gino Robair speaks out on issues relating to music technology. Read the first installment. Despite his incredible talent as a singer/songwriter, I don’t like Jackson Browne’s music. I’ve tried many times, even sitting through an 8-encore ... http://blog.emusician.com/the_bus/2009/10/15/the-robair-report-running-on-empty-never/ When I was recording “PS (Protest Song)” for Dear Lover I was thinking about John Lennon. I'm not a Beatles fanatic, but Lennon is top ten for me. He's one of the bravest artists we've had. “Mother,” “Beautiful Boy,” “Imagine,” “Help” and “How” are all very painful yet liberating mainlines ... http://blog.emusician.com/the_bus/2009/10/14/feel/ When I first sat down to begin recording Dear Lover I set one simple definitive rule: Every song will be fully realized with 14 tracks or less. So many times in the past I've felt that the reason we were knocking up against 32 tracks or more in a session was because ... http://blog.emusician.com/the_bus/2009/10/07/the-14-track-rule-and-the-call-for-immediacy/ I seem to have struck a bit of a nerve with my recent First Take column, in which I postulated that people who make music primarily by putting together loops rather than playing traditional instruments should still be considered "musicians." The responses I've gotten so far have been spilt between ... http://blog.emusician.com/the_bus/2009/10/05/musician-or-not/ The following is the first installment of a brand-new blog in which former EM editor Gino Robair speaks out on issues relating to music technology. For reasons that you can probably figure out, Antares Auto-Tune is one of the few pro-audio tools that nearly everyone knows about. As if to hammer ... http://blog.emusician.com/the_bus/2009/10/01/how-pitch-correction-has-helped-our-ears-evolve/